Crossbow
Seeking Honesty and Sanity
The Braxton County/Flatwoods Monster --
Hello everybody!
I am trying to fortify myself for an upcoming battle with a believer in a government sponsored cover-up.
As for the details, Frank Feschino Jr. heard about a UFO/paranormal sighting that occurred in Flatwoods, WV (which is in Braxton County) on September 12th, 1952. Anyway, he eventually found some government documents about the sighting and concluded that there was an actual ecounter with an extra-terrestial and the evil, nasty government covered the whole thing up, and then proceeded to write a book about it (The Braxton County Monster: The Cover-Up of the Flatwoods Monster Revealed).
Anyway, I plan to attend his book signing which will be this Sunday (16 OCT 2004), at 4:00 PM, at the Charleston (WV) Civic Center.
I also plan on taking my copy of the Joe Nickell that he wrote about this event for Skeptical Inquirer.
I know that it is asking a great deal, but if there are any other Skeptics out there, I sure would appreciate it if you could attend as well.
Thanks in advance!
http://wvgazette.com/section/News/Today/2004101137
Author follows the trail of the Braxton County Monster
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Feschino discovered that UFOs were spotted all over the eastern United States on the night the Flatwoods Monster was seen, including sightings in Washington, D.C.; Virginia; Maryland and Tennessee. Government officials explained the hundreds of individual sightings as a single meteor, but Feschino didn’t believe that a single meteor could be seen in so many different places, at different times, and going in different directions. He smelled a government cover-up.
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Feschino argues the Braxton County Monster was in fact the occupant of a damaged UFO that crashed after a dogfight over the Atlantic Ocean.
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http://www.csicop.org/si/2000-11/i-files.html
Investigative Files
The Flatwoods UFO Monster
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Johnny Lockard, 95, told me that virtually everyone who had seen the alleged flying saucer in 1952 recognized it for what it was: a meteor. He, his daughter Betty Jean, and her husband Bill Sumpter said that the fireball had been seen on a relatively horizontal trajectory in various states. In fact, according to a former local newspaper editor, "There is no doubt that a meteor of considerable proportion flashed across the heavens that Friday night since it was visible in at least three states -- Maryland, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia" (Byrne 1966). The meteor explanation contrasts with the fanciful notions of Sanderson (1967). He cites several persons who each saw a single glowing object. Although observing that "All of the objects were traveling in the same direction and apparently at the same speed and at exactly the same time," he fails to draw the obvious conclusion: that there was one object, albeit variously described. (For example, one report said the object landed on a nearby knoll, while another described it as "disintegrating in the air with a rain of ashes.") Instead of suspecting that people were mistaken or that they saw a meteor that broke apart, Sanderson asserts that "to be logical" we should believe that "a flight of aerial machines" were "maneuvering in formation." For some reason the craft went out of control, with one landing, rather than crashing, at Flatwoods, and its pilot emerged "in a space suit." Observed, it headed back to the spaceship which -- like two others that "crashed" -- soon "vaporized" (Sanderson 1967).
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Hello everybody!
I am trying to fortify myself for an upcoming battle with a believer in a government sponsored cover-up.
As for the details, Frank Feschino Jr. heard about a UFO/paranormal sighting that occurred in Flatwoods, WV (which is in Braxton County) on September 12th, 1952. Anyway, he eventually found some government documents about the sighting and concluded that there was an actual ecounter with an extra-terrestial and the evil, nasty government covered the whole thing up, and then proceeded to write a book about it (The Braxton County Monster: The Cover-Up of the Flatwoods Monster Revealed).
Anyway, I plan to attend his book signing which will be this Sunday (16 OCT 2004), at 4:00 PM, at the Charleston (WV) Civic Center.
I also plan on taking my copy of the Joe Nickell that he wrote about this event for Skeptical Inquirer.
I know that it is asking a great deal, but if there are any other Skeptics out there, I sure would appreciate it if you could attend as well.
Thanks in advance!
http://wvgazette.com/section/News/Today/2004101137
Author follows the trail of the Braxton County Monster
...
Feschino discovered that UFOs were spotted all over the eastern United States on the night the Flatwoods Monster was seen, including sightings in Washington, D.C.; Virginia; Maryland and Tennessee. Government officials explained the hundreds of individual sightings as a single meteor, but Feschino didn’t believe that a single meteor could be seen in so many different places, at different times, and going in different directions. He smelled a government cover-up.
...
Feschino argues the Braxton County Monster was in fact the occupant of a damaged UFO that crashed after a dogfight over the Atlantic Ocean.
...
http://www.csicop.org/si/2000-11/i-files.html
Investigative Files
The Flatwoods UFO Monster
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Johnny Lockard, 95, told me that virtually everyone who had seen the alleged flying saucer in 1952 recognized it for what it was: a meteor. He, his daughter Betty Jean, and her husband Bill Sumpter said that the fireball had been seen on a relatively horizontal trajectory in various states. In fact, according to a former local newspaper editor, "There is no doubt that a meteor of considerable proportion flashed across the heavens that Friday night since it was visible in at least three states -- Maryland, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia" (Byrne 1966). The meteor explanation contrasts with the fanciful notions of Sanderson (1967). He cites several persons who each saw a single glowing object. Although observing that "All of the objects were traveling in the same direction and apparently at the same speed and at exactly the same time," he fails to draw the obvious conclusion: that there was one object, albeit variously described. (For example, one report said the object landed on a nearby knoll, while another described it as "disintegrating in the air with a rain of ashes.") Instead of suspecting that people were mistaken or that they saw a meteor that broke apart, Sanderson asserts that "to be logical" we should believe that "a flight of aerial machines" were "maneuvering in formation." For some reason the craft went out of control, with one landing, rather than crashing, at Flatwoods, and its pilot emerged "in a space suit." Observed, it headed back to the spaceship which -- like two others that "crashed" -- soon "vaporized" (Sanderson 1967).
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